The icons of the holy soldiers. Images of heavenly defenders in the Byzantine, Balkan and Old Russian art

The book includes more than 50 essays about the famous and not so famous holy warriors. Brief information is also given about more than 70 saints, during the lifetime of the former soldiers (including those revered in the church tradition as the Monk or Saints) All descriptions are accompanied by a large number of illustrations (more than 350), many of which are published for the first time. An extensive illustrative series gives an excellent idea of ​​the iconography of each holy warrior for several centuries: starting with the frescoes and mosaics of the early Christian period to icons written by modern icon painters.
The authors express deep and sincere gratitude to their teachers, colleagues, friends and private collectors who provided disinterested help in creating this book, providing rare materials, slides and photographs: ES Smirnova (Moscow State University), O.S. Popova (Moscow State University), V.D. Sarabyanov (Rosresting), N.I. Komashko (Tsmiar), A.S. Preobrazhensky (Moscow State University), S.V. Zaigraykina (GMMK), M.A. Kurysheva (RAS), E.V. Uchunova (GIM), E.D. Sheko (PSTGU), V.V. Narcissov (GTG), employees of the Museum of Old Russian Culture and Art named after Andrei Rublev, the State Tretyakov Gallery